connie, that's what I meant - not sure of how to phrase what looked different. Let me try for examples, instead.

"I mourn my dead love. I mourn for my dead love. I grieve for my dead love."

IOW, I've seen "mourn" used both ways, but never seen "grieve" used without something to qualify it.

Crap. No access to memory bank sections dealing with linguistic architecture terminoloy this morning. Send donuts.

Don't edit until the story is done.

That was Betsy's advice: write first, edit after.

I don't actually work that way - I edit as I work. But that's just my process, and it's why I find everyone else's fascinating.

I wonder if "it grieves me" is a Southern thing.

A friend of mine has been writing a story for years. She edits and edits and edits. I suspect she is still on chapter one.

I also edit as I go, but it helps get me back into the story the next day. I read previous day's work, edit and polish, and then start the new stuff. Works for me.

I've heard "it grieves me", connie.

I've heard it "it grieves me" all my life. What I've never heard before is "I grieve you."

So, someone is dying, I'm standing over their bed. I might say "I will mourn you". It wouldn't occur to me to say "I will grieve you."

I don't know the real grammatical terms, but I don't think I've hard forms other than "X grieves me" or "he grieves for". Active form? Passive, because something else receives the action? Present tense? Third-person as the subject of the verb? I can put together a kick-ass sentence, but I wouldn't be able to describe it technically under threat of torture.

I've heard "it grieves me", connie.

It's in the Giles/Tara duet from OMWF.

It's in the Giles/Tara duet from OMWF.

Oh, thank god! It was going to haunt me all day and I'd end up scanning every song sung by a woman in my play list.

It's actually "It'll grieve me / cause I love you so...."